Press Release
SOMETHING LIKE HAPPY
Solo Exhibition by
Pawarest (Doe) Choksaen
Curated by Reinhard Kressner
23.12. – 03.02.2024
Opening: Saturday, 23.12.2023, 6 pm – 10 pm
Pawarest (Doe) Choksean, born 1970, lives and works in Bangkok. At a young age he studied sculpture at the Poh Chang Academy of Arts.
He then spent most of his working life in the advertising industry, a job that helped him earn a living but did not bring fulfilment and satisfaction. The passion for art was too great and could not really be reconciled with his daily work.
Doe dared to make a new start, jumped into the deep end and almost fell into the abyss. Personal crises and world-weariness accompanied his life, but art saved him.
He began painting late in life, not bound by any school of painting or academic standards. Doe was free of all that. His gaze is unobstructed and his paintings come from the depth of his being. They reflect – despite personal misfortunes – the artist’s connection with the world around him, his search for meaning, for harmony, and love.
This is what makes Doe’s paintings so unique and universal at the same time.
Role models in art history and contemporary painting are hard to spot. Doe is Doe. He has invented himself, and that is a good thing.
His sources of inspiration are likely to be diverse. Internet and social media might be important, but above all, are his surroundings, which he roams through and perceives with an alert eye.
The depiction of figures, their surroundings and interior in his paintings are not so far removed from photography. They resemble snapshots that could have been taken from a film still.
Strong, but also very delicate acrylic colours are applied to the canvases. Doe’s pictures actually have nothing dark, they show a happiness that is fragile and wants to be found anew every day.
The figures are not really portrayed, but show themselves in all their ambivalence and search. Doe is concerned with the core, with the essential.
Today, Doe is admired by collectors and his paintings can be found in private collections in Thailand, throughout Asia and overseas. Renowned galleries in Bangkok have and will exhibit Doe in the future.
“Something like happy“ seems possible.
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